xxxviii, 580 pages : 29 cm

Contains alphabetically arranged essays that provide information about events, leaders, and key concepts in political revolutions around the globe, covering a period that ranges from 1500 A.D. through the twentieth century

Includes bibliographical references and index

Adams, John -- Adams, Samuel -- Afghan Revolutions (1978-1995) -- Albanian Anticommunist Revolution (1990-1992) -- Algerian Islamic Revolt (1992- ) -- Algerian Revolution (1954-1962) -- American (U.S.) Revolution (1776-1789) -- Anabaptism -- Anarchism -- Angolan Revolution (1974-1996) -- Anthony, Susan B. -- Arab "Great Revolt" (1916-1918) -- Armed Forces -- Art and representation -- Ataturk, Kemal -- Babi Revolts (1844-1852) -- Baltic revolutions of 1991 -- Bangladeshi War of Independence (1971) -- Belgian Revolutions (1789-1830) -- Benin Revolutions (1963-1996) -- Biko, Stephen -- Bohemian Revolt (1618-1648) -- Bolivar, Simon -- Bolivian National Revolution (1952) -- Bourgeoisie -- British Civil Wars and Revolution (1638-1660) -- British "Glorious Revolution" (1688-1689) -- British Jacobite Rebellions (1715-1745) -- British Reform and Emancipation Movement (1820-1833) -- Bulgarian Anticommunist Revolution (1989-1997) -- Buonarroti, Filippo Michele -- Bureaucracy -- Burke, Edmund -- Burmese Democratization Movement (1988- ) -- Burmese Independence Movement (1930s-1948) -- Burundi Civil Wars (1993- ) -- Cabral, Amilcar -- Cambodian Khmer Rouge Revolution (1967-1979) -- Capitalism -- Castro, Fidel -- Chiang Kai-shek -- Chilean Socialism Movement and Counterrevolution (1970-1978) -- Chinese Boxer Uprising (1898-1900) -- Chinese Communism Revolution (1921 -- 1949) -- Chinese Cultural Revolution (1966-1969) -- Chinese Late Ming Revolts (1620-1644) -- Chinese May Fourth Movement (1919) -- Chinese May Thirtieth Movement (1925) -- Chinese Muslim Rebellions (1856-1878) -- Chinese Nationalism Revolution (1919-1927) -- Chinese Republican Revolution (1911) -- Chinese Sectarian and Secret Society Revolts (1644- ) -- Chinese Taiping Rebellion (1851-1864) -- Chinese Tiananmen Uprising (1989) -- Chinese Triad Society Rebellions (18th-20th Centuries) -- Chinese White Lotus Rebellions (18th-20th Centuries) -- Civil Wars -- Class -- Colombia's "La Violencia" (1948-1964) -- Colonialism and Anticolonialiam -- Communism -- Congolese/Zairian Upheavals (1960- ) -- Constitutions -- Costa Rican Revolution (1948) -- Counterrevolution -- Coup d'Etat -- Cromwell, Oliver -- Cuban Revolution (1956-1970) -- Cycles, Waves, and Diffusion -- Czechoslovak "Prague Spring" 1968) -- Czechoslovak "Velvet Revolution" and "Divorce" (1989-1993) -- Democracy -- Deng Xiaoping -- Dictatorship -- Dutch Revolutions (1780-1800) -- East European Revolutions of 1989 -- East German Revolution and Unification (1989-1990) -- East Timorese Independence Movement (1975- ) -- Economic Development -- Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood Movement (1928- ) -- Egyptian Revolts (1881-1919) -- Egyptian Revolution (1952) -- Elites -- English Kett's Rebellion (1549) -- Eritrean Revolution (1962-1991) -- Ethiopian Revolution (1974-1991) -- Ethnic Conflict -- European Revolutions of 1820 -- European Revolutions of 1830 -- European Revolutions of 1848 -- Fanon, Frantz Omar -- Films and Video Documentaries -- Franklin, Benjamin -- French Frondes (1648-1653) -- French Peasant Revolts (1594-1648) -- French Revolution (1789-1815) -- French Student Revolt (1968) -- French Wars of Religion (1562-1598) -- Gandhi, Mahatma -- Garibaldi, Giuseppe -- Gender -- German Nazi Revolution (1933-1945) -- German Peasant War (1524-1526) -- German Revolution (1918) -- Ghanaian Independence Movement (1946-1957) -- Gorbachev, Mikhail -- Gramsci, Antonio -- Greek War of Liberation (1821-1832) -- Grenada "New Jewel" Revolution (1979-1983) -- Guatemalan Revolution (1944-1954) -- Guerrilla Warfare -- Guevara, Ernesto "Che" -- Guinea-Bissau Independence Revolt (1962-1974) -- Guinean Independence Movement (1958) -- Haitian Democratic Revolution (1986-1996) -- Haitian Revolution of Independence (1791-1804) -- Havel, Vaclav -- Henry, Patrick -- Hitler, Adolf -- Ho Chi Minh -- Hong Xinquan -- Hungarian Anticommunist Revolution (1989) -- Hungarian Revolutions (1918-1919) -- Hungarian Revolution (1956) -- Ideology -- Indian "Great Mutiny" (1857-1859) -- Indian Independence Movement (1885-1947) -- Indian Regional Revolts (1947- ) -- Indonesian National Revolution (1945-1950) -- Indonesian Upheaval (1965-1966) -- Inequality -- Injustice -- Intellectuals -- Iranian Constitutional Revolution (1906) -- Iranian Islamic Revolution (1979) -- Iraqi Revolution (1958) -- Irish Revolt in Northern Ireland (1969- ) -- Irish Revolts (1790s-1900) -- Irish Revolution (1916-1923) -- Islamic Anticolonial Revolts of the 19th Century -- Islamic Fundamentalism -- Islamic Precolonial Revolts of the 18th and 19th Centuries -- Israel Independence Revolt (1946-1948) -- Italian City-State Revolutions of the Renaissance (1494-1534) -- Italian Fascist Revolution (1919-1945) -- Italian Risorgimento (1789-1870) -- Japanese Meiji Restoration (1868) -- Japanese Tokugawa Shogun Ascendancy (1598-1615) -- Jefferson, Thomas -- Jinnah, Mohammad Ali -- Juarez, Benito -- Kenyan Mau Mau Movement (1952-1960) -- Kenyatta, Jomo -- Khomeini, Ayatollah Ruhollah -- Kim Il Sung -- King, Martin Luther, Jr. -- Korean Civil War (1950-1953) -- Korean Democracy Movement (1960-1998) -- Korean Rebellions of 1812 and 1862 -- Korean Tonghak Rebellion (1894) -- Kurdish Revolts (1958- ) -- Lafayette, Gilbert du Motier de -- Latin American and Caribbean Slave Revolts (1521-1888) -- Latin American Popular and Guerrilla Revolts (Independence to 1959) -- Latin American Popular and Guerrilla Revolts (1960-1996) -- Latin American Revolts under Colonial Rule (1571-1898) -- Latin American Revolutions for Independence (1808-1898) -- Leaderhsip -- Lechin Oquendo, Juan -- Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich -- Liberalism -- Liberation Theology -- Libyan revolution (1969) -- Literature -- Locke, John -- L'Ouverture, Francois-Dominique Toussaint -- Lumumba, Patrice -- Luther, Martin -- Luxemburg, Rosa -- Madagascar (Malagasy) War of Independence (1947) -- Madison, James -- Malayan Communist Insurgency (1948-1960) -- Mandela, Nelson Rolihlahla -- Mao Zedong -- Marat, Jean-Paul -- Marti, Jose -- Marx, Karl, and Friedrich Engels -- Media and Communications -- Menchu Tum, Rigoberta -- Mexican Revolution (1910-1940) -- Millenarianism -- Mosaddeq, Mohammad -- Mozambican Revolution (1974-1994) -- Mugabe, Robert Gabriel -- Music -- Mussolini, Benito -- Nasser, Gamal Abdel -- Nationalism -- Nehru, Jawaharlal -- Netherlands Revolt (1566-1609) -- Nicaraguan Revolution (1979) -- Nigerian Civil War (1967-1970) -- Nkrumah, Kwame -- Nyerere, Julius Kambarage -- Omani Rebellions (1955-1975) -- Orwell, George -- Ottoman Jelali and Janissary Revolts (1566-1826) -- Ottoman Revolts in the Near and Middle East (1803-1922) -- Paine, Thomas -- Pakistani Independence Movement (1940-1947) -- Palestinian Anticolonial Revolt (1936-1939) -- Palestinian "Intifada" Revolt (1987-1996) -- Paris Commune (1871) -- Parties -- Peasants -- Peruvian "Revolution from Above" (1968-1975) -- Peruvian "Shinning Path" Revolt (1980- ) -- Philippine Huk and New People's Army Rebellions (1946-mid-1950s; late 1960s-late 1980s) -- Philippine Independence Wars (1872-1910) -- Philippine "People Power" Revolution (1986) -- Polish Protest Movements and Solidarity Revolution (1956-1991) -- Population -- Portuguese Revolution (1974) -- Propaganda -- Race -- Radicalism -- Rationality -- Rebellion and Revolt -- Reform -- Religion -- Republics -- Rights -- Robespierre, Maximilien -- Romanian Revolution (1989) -- Rousseau, Jean-Jacques -- Russian Decembrist Revolt (1825) -- Russian Revolution of 1905 -- Russian Revolution of 1917 -- Russian-Ukrainian Cossack and Peasant Revolts (1606-1775) -- Rwandan Civil Wars (1959-1994) -- San Martin, Jose Francisco de -- Sandino, Augusto Cesar -- Saudi Arabian Wahhabi Movement (1744- ) -- Scottish Revolution (1559-1568) -- Socialism -- Sorel, Georges -- South African Antiapartheid Revolts and Reform (1948-1994) -- Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) -- Spanish Comuneros Revolt (1520-1521) -- Spanish Conquest, Aztec and Inca Revolts in the Era of (1500-1571) -- Spanish Struggles against Revolutionary Movements in Southern Europe (1640-1668) -- Spanish War of Independence (1808-1813) -- Sri Lankan (Tamil) Revolt and Civil War (1977- ) -- Stalin, Joseph -- States -- Student Protests and Youth Movements -- Sudanese Civil War (1955-1972; 1982- ) -- Sudanese Mahdiyya (1881-1898) -- Sukarno -- Sun Yat-sen -- Swedish Royal Revolution (1523) -- Symbolism, Ritualism, and Dress -- Syrian Revolution (1963) -- Terrorism -- Thai Revolution (1932) -- Tibetan Revolt (1959) -- Tito, Josip Broz -- Tocqueville, Alexis de -- Trotsky, Leon -- Turkish Revolution (1908-1922) -- Tyranny -- USSR Collapse and Dissolution (1989-1991) -- U.S. Civil Rights Movement (1954-1968) -- U.S. Civil War (1861-1965) -- U.S. Labor Revolts (1890-1932) -- U.S. Preindependence and Pre-Civil War Rebellions (1675-1850) -- U.S. Rural Post-Civil War Rebellions (1865-1940) -- U.S. Slave Revolts (1776-1865) -- Venezuelan Democratic Revolution (1945-1958) -- Vietnamese Revolution (1945-1975) -- Violence -- Walesa, Lech -- War -- Washington, George -- William of Orange (King William III of England) -- William the Silent -- Women's Rights Movement -- Workers -- Yemen Revolutions (1962-1990) -- Yugoslav Communist Collapse and Dissolution (1987-1992) -- Yugoslav Partisans and Communist Revolution (1941-1948) -- Zanzibar Revolution (1964) -- Zapata, Emiliano -- Zimbabwe Revolt and Reform (1966-1980)

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